Target toy.



Patented Jan. 16, 1917.

WITNESSES HENRY a. HART, or new YORK, n. Y.

TARGET TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1917.

Application filed. August 26, 1916. Serial No. 117,024.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HART, a citizen of the United States, and a-resident of the city of New York, Flushing, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Target Toy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of toys, and deals particularly with targets against which projectiles from a toy gun are fired.

The invention has for its general objects to provide a novel target in which the object to be hit will, upon being struck by a projectile, fly into the air and entirely leave the supporting part or frame of the target.v

to simulate a frog jumping out of the water, to the amusement of the child using the toy.,,

A more specific object of the invention is the provision of a target embodying a frame which represents a frog pond, and the object to be hit is a frog which is normally held under the tension of a spring or equivalent projecting means, so that when the exposed part of the frog is hit by a projectile, the frog is released from the catch, so that the spring projecting means will throw the frog upwardly into the air a suitable distance, the construction of the device being such that it is of comparatively simple and inexpensive design and permits of the easy setting of the target.

With such objects in view, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the target, with a portion broken away to show the projecting or throwing means for the movable part of the target when the same is hit; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 83, Fig. 1; and Fig. is a detail sectional view on the line 4-4, Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawing, A designates F the stationary body or frame of the target and B the movable part thereof corresponding to the bulls eye of a target, and which is adapted to be hit in order that the said part will be automatically released and thrown up into the air.

The frame or body A is of any suitable construction, but it preferably embodies a front plate 1 which is decorated in such a nanner as to represent a frog pond, and floating in this frog pond is the movable part B of the target which represents a frog, the head and upper portion of which are exposed above the top edge of the front plate 1. The body A has rearwardly eX- tending wings or bracket members 2 connected by hinges 3 with the body A, so as to fold from a position flat against the rear of thelatter toa position at an angle there to, whereby the target can be stably supported on a table or other surface. Within the frame or body A is a pocket or equivalent means 4; into which the body of the frog is placed in upright position, and the feet 5 of the frog rest on a suitable projecting means, such as an elliptical spring 6 fastened in the bottom of the pocket 4. Proj ecting forwardly from the body of the frog is a lug 7 engageable under a stationary catch 8 fastened to the front plate 1 and extending rearwardly therefrom. The lug 7 is so positioned that to engage under the catch 8 the spring 6 will be forced downwardly or compressed, since the frog must be pushed downwardly in the pocket 1 to effect an engagement between the lug and catch. This relation is shown in Fig. 4:. The movable object or frog B has a limited lateral movement in the pocket center for effecting an engagement and disengagement of the lug and catch.

hen the frog is in set position, as shown in .Fig. 1, wooden or other bullets C are discharged from a toy gun against the projecting part of the frog, and if a projectile hits the frog the latter by the impact of a bullet is thrown backwardly sufficient to disengage the lug from the catch 8, and then the spring 6 comes into play to project the frog upwardly out of the body of the target, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. To reset the target the frog is entered feet first into the upper end of the pocket 4- and moved downwardly into the pocket until the lug 7 is reengaged under the catch 8, when the target is again ready for use.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as fall'within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A target toy comprising a supporting section representing a frog pond, a movable section normally held on the supporting section andrepresenting a frog floating in the pond, means normally under tension for projecting the frog into the air when hit by a projectile, and catch means normally holding the frog in set position on the supporting section.

2. A target toy comprising a supporting section and having a pocket, an object to be hit by a projectile and mounted in the pocket, with a portion extending out of the same, catch means for releasably holding the object in the pocket, and a spring in the pocket held under tension when the catch I is hit.

HENRY A. HART.

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Washington, D. C. 

